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WinCoasterFair1

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  1. I'm personally not buying the idea that this fence and all the buzz is for anything other than a coaster! To me the question is wood or steel? My prediction is that trees will be removed from the surrounding area that RFYLCB formerly occupied, then we'll start seeing other land clearing which will clear a path directly out to the parking lot while running along the border of Picnic Grove. The we'll see the project take a right turn while running along the parking lot edge and the misc office buildings out to the brand new entrance gate where the project will come to an end. My prediction is that it will be an out-and-back B&M Giga Coaster, and a much needed new entrance plaza. The addition of this coaster IMO will add balance to the park being on the opposite side of their current newest major attraction, which will shrink down the boundary of Planet Snoopy, and extend the adult/teen oriented part of the park where Diamondback is located. Still there's always the chance of Cedar Fair's first project with RMC, which could explain the falling trees warning sign? I do not think that CF will add a GCI wooden coaster to one of their bigger parks like KI due to the High Capacity needs of over 3 million guests per year. A new wooden coaster for KI would be too big, and will get beat to hell over the course of a season with the 3 larger and longer trains that it will need to reach the destined capacity. Lets not forget the most recent bad experience KI has had with SOB, and how they do still have a top-10 woodie in The Beast, which I'm sure requires it's fair share of ridiculous maintenance costs regularly. Which makes me think that CF will take the safe and guaranteed route with one of their highly attended parks like KI. If KI does indeed receive an RMC, I think it has a lot to do with all the site clearing at Cedar Point, and their future. CP IMO is not done making noise in the coaster industry just yet after constructing Valravn. I think Cedar Point will make another new addition sooner than expected, and I wouldn't be shocked if it's a large B&M that occupies the spot Mean Streak currently sits on, and goes out to where the go-carts and Sky Scraper used be, maybe out to where STR used to be? I dunno just my personal predictions.
  2. I agree that there's land to work with as far as Cedar Point, but IMO being surrounded by water and already being so established that they're not going to make any drastic changes anytime soon... I've taken several good looks at CP's actual land layout and there are a few possibilities of building that OMG attraction in the future, but I just don't believe their land is as readily available as some of the other park's in the chain. If Dick Kinzel was still running the show for Cedar Fair I'd say that something big is going to happen soon for CP, but the Matt Ouimet era to me is going a different route. It's all fun, but my money's on Mason being the recipient of the next BIG B&M!
  3. For my first post here @ KICentral, I will speculate IMO that KI will receive a B&M Giga coaster similar to the stature of Fury 325 and maybe as soon as 2017. Personally when I speculate Cedar Fair and it's future, I look at their parks and the regions that they're located in. For example Carowinds, KD are within reasonable driving distance of each other and could be considered to be in direct compliance with each other in sharing that same market as far as guests based on location. Since Cedar Fair took the 2 former Paramount parks over, both have added/offered different attractions which were introduced at different times (years/seasons), giving each park their own special and attractive differences that give all potential guests in that region a reason to visit both parks rather than just one. It's why in this case I believe that KD will be up next out of the 2 parks, and will receive a trendy B&M such as Winged, Inverted, or even a Dive Machine to offer direct competition to nearby BG Williamsburg's Griffon which has been a BIG success in that area. I speculate this because KD already has a great Giga coaster in I305, and sister-park Carowinds has Hyper coaster Intimidator along with the brand new B&M Giga coaster Fury 325. Since KD has already announced the addition of Delirium for the 2016 season, I look ahead to 2017/2018 which will mark it's 7th and 8th season since their last major coaster and to me it's just a matter of time. As for KI and it's future, I see them working alongside of Cedar Point the same way with it's addition of new attractions. CP has their Giga in MF, as well as TTD and now the Dive Machine ValRavn, but the one thing they're lacking is that BIG B&M air-time machine that seems to be the new trend with Cedar Fair! CP as we all know did their work early going the Intamin route, but KI more recently has gone the B&M route which seems to be Cedar Fair's current go-to manufacturer in adding Diamondback! I think it's clear and safe to say that CP won't be adding another large land-eating coaster anytime soon since they're short on land being located on a peninsula and already have existing Hyper/Giga/Strata coasters. But KI begs to differ with multiple land outlets and expansion potential along with an annual attendance of over 3 million guests which would support such a Capital Investment such as a B&M Giga coaster, plus recently in 2014 adding the trendy B&M Invert Banshee which tells me that we'll see something different next. All in all I see both CP/KI, and Carowinds/KD always being either one-or-the-other with each never adding duplicate attractions going into the future as far as major coasters, giving each park it's own unique experience! Only Cedar Fair knows which park out of KI/KD will be the recipient of the next big coaster addition, but I'd have to imagine that they're both candidates to be up next and the question to me is which park will be first? Just my thoughts on the future, which I look forward to sharing and discussing other member's speculation here in the forum.
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